udev question for dealing with auto spindown on Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:08 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> I saw this advice on how to implement a fix using udev:
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/DealWithAutoSpinDownOnSeagateFreeAgent
> udev Method
> 
> Add a rule to the end of /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules
> 
> # Seagate FreeAgent allow_restart fix (i/o errors)
> SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi",DRIVERS=="sd",ATTRS{vendor}=="Seagate*",ATTRS{model}=="FreeAgent*",RUN+="/bin/sh
> -c 'echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/%k/allow_restart'"
> 
> I have Fedora 10 installed. Should I add a new file 10-local.rules and
> put it there? I currently don't have a local.rules file.

Just try it and see. Remember to restart udev after you make the change.

Note however that F10 is no longer supported.

poc